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An old letter from G.M. Vaughan gives great insight into the family. Family History as written by Mrs G.M.Urbasch. Parents and grandparents of C.R.Urbasch, Junior. Daniel Jacobus Johannes Vaughan, born in the district of Wellington …..r Paarl married Elizabeth Maria Hugo born in the district of Worcester. They were .. arried in the Dut? Dutch church in Worcester in 1865 by the Revd William Murray. Your ..reat grandfather John Joseph Vaughan, was born in Dublin Ireland and his wife Catherine Killeen was born in Limerick, Ireland. The two of them went to England and got married there Their parents did not want them to get married as they were still to young, that is why they went to England and got married there. They were Roman Catholics. His father had a brass foundry as it was called in those days in Dublin. That is why there is suppose to be a lot of money in Chancey for the Vaughans. When they came to Africa they lived on a farm between Wellington and Paarl. I am not quite s.re where but that is where your grandfather was born. Your great? Grandmother had twin boys. At that time a Mrs Le Roux of Wellington, who had no children, asked for one of the twins. Your great grandmother gave her one at the age of 6 weeks on conditionthat he kept his own name. He was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church in Wellington. Afterwards his adopted parents .oved to wo..es ter.? There he was ……? Married and lived on a farm in Gardenia district wo..es ter.? He died at the age. I think, of 34, of consumption. His adopted parents we.e all that a parent could be to a son. His wife was Elizabeth Maria Hugo. Her parents were Jacobus Hugo and his wife Gertruida du Plessis. They were both of the Breede River in the District of Tulbach. Your grandmother lost her mother when she was one year old so Mrs Jacob de Vos of Worcester adoptedher as his own. They lived and died in Worcester. He was an uncle of your grand….? Her second marriage was to Thomas Ravenscroft of Worcester. They never had any children together. She di.d at Swelllendam. Lived with the youngest son …… Vaughan, one of your uncles. The other one is Daniel Vaughan. ?Both lived in Swellendam. Your great ?grandfather married a second time, a ???? the name of ���. She died in the district of Calvinia. On your father’s side: Carl Heinrich Urbasch, born in Berlin Germany, his wife Augusta… born in Hamburg, Germany. They came to South Africa. Settles in Cape Town, li..d there and ?bon both of them died there. He was a builder by trade, a good old couple. They belonged to the German Church, Cape Town. Now for your parents: Carl Rudolf.. Urbasch, born Cape Town 22nd September, 1864, confirmed in the German church, Cape Towns, by Rev Hahn. Your mother Gertruida Magdalena Vaughan born Worchester, baptized and confirmed inthe DRC Worchester by the Rev William Murray. We were married a Worchester by Rev Murray in my parent’s house. I was born 21 June 1866, married 11 January 1887. You must remember that, if ever you have need one day to look up the DC books for you parents marriage certificate, your father signed his name in English Charles Rudolf. It was just thoughtlessness, nothing else. Signed by G.M. Urbasch 5.6.1929
Charmaine
Carstens
